Question

The ninth week of SEAL training is referred to as Hell Week. It is on Wednesday of Hell Week that you paddle down to the mud flats (泥滩）and spend the next 15 hours trying to survive the freezing-cold mud, the howling wind and the increasing pressure from the instructors to quit. As the sun began to set that Wednesday evening, my training class, having broken the rules, was ordered into the mud. The mud consumed each man till there was nothing visible but our heads. The instructors told us we could leave the mud if only five men would quit—just five men and we could get out of the extreme cold.

Looking around the mud flat, it was apparent that some students were about to give up. It was still over eight hours till the sun came up--eight more hours of freezing cold. The chattering teeth and shivering moans (呻吟）of the trainees were so loud it was hard to hear anything. And then, one voice began to echo (回荡）through the night--one voice raised in song. The song was terribly out of tune, but sung with great enthusiasm. One voice became two, and two became three, and before long everyone in the class was singing. We knew that if one man could rise above the great suffering then others could as well. The instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if we kept up the singing—but the singing went on. And somehow, the mud seemed a little warmer, the wind a little less bitter and the dawn not so far away.

If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world it is the power of hope. The power of one person, Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala, can change the world by giving people hope.

So, if you want to change the world, start singing when you're up to your neck in mud.

1.From the passage, we can see that being ordered into the mud was _____    .

A. the last part of the training

B. the most useful part of the training

C. the real test of the trainees' intelligence

D. the punishment for the training class

2.The training class' singing together ______    .

A. helped them to kill the time

B. encouraged them to fight their difficulty

C. inspired the instructors

D. kept them from falling into the mud

3.The writer described his SEAL training experience mainly to tell the readers _____    .

A. the power of a large crowd of people

B. the advantage of the training

C. the way to bring about changes

D. the reason to promote singing

4.In the last paragraph, the phrase "up to your neck in mud" most probably means     ______ .

A. in an extremely difficult situation

B. in a hard training class

C. in terribly cold weather

D. in a lower social position

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.C

4.A

【解析】本文是一篇记叙文。主要讲述了作者在进行封闭训练时经历的“地狱周”，因为接受惩罚需要在泥滩中生存十五个小时。在经历了各种的困难和压力后却没有人放弃，最终大家一起迎来了黎明，作者也因此从中获得了一些人生感悟。

1.细节理解题。根据文章第一段中的“As the sun began to set that Wednesday evening, my training class, having broken the rules, was ordered into the mud.”可以得知这是在训练时，由于破坏了规矩而接受的惩罚。故选D

2.推理判断题。根据文章的第二段后面的“the mud seemed a little warmer, the wind a little less bitter and the dawn not so far away.”可以得知，大家一起唱歌让人觉得泥滩不再那么难熬了，因此可以推断，同学们一起唱歌是为了鼓励自己战胜困难。故选B

3.推理判断题。根据文章的第三段中的“The power of one person, Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala, can change the world by giving people hope.”可以得知，作者认为任何一个人可以通过给予一个人希望而改变这个世界。由此可以推断出作者叙述他的封闭训练的经历，主要是想告诉读者们带来改变的方式是什么。故选C

4.词义推断题。通读全文可以得知，作者是想借自己在泥滩中生存的经历告诉读者们遇到困难时应该如何面对，所以"up to your neck in mud"的意思是指在极其困难的坏境中。故选A